Bottling-machine.



A. CALLESON.

. BOTTLING MACHINE. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 27,1905.

Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEYS A. GALLESON. BOTTLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27,1905.

Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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ATTORNEYS WITNESSES:

A GALLESON. BOTTLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27,1 905.

Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS A. CALLESON. BOTTLING MACHINE. APPLIOATION FILED JUN: 27,1905

Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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AMOS OALLESON, OF

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BENJAMIN ADRIANOE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BOTTLING-MACHINE To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, Amos GALLESON, a citizen of 'the United States, residing in Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottling-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled ill the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention consists in certain improvements in bottling machines whereby, as the principal object, several of the operations necessary to filling bottles with two liquids, under pressure, are so controlled as to reduce the manipulations necessary to a minimum, so that the attention of the operator is centralized and his work materially expedited.

One salient feature of the invention is a novel combination of a filling head and a closure-afiixing means in which the aflixing means is alternately inclosed by the filling head and exposed, in the one instance during filling and in theother instance during affixing, so that, while the construction is made simple and compact, the operator may visually determine, before the bottle is permanently closed, that the bottle possesses the air-space above the liquid which it is well. known in the art should exist in order toallow for expansion of the liquid.

Another leading feature consists in the means whereby the snifting is performed through the movements of certain parts which have to move, anyway, in order to perform other functions.

Another novel feature is the cap attaching means.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the improved bottling machine Fig.2 is a side view thereof; Fig. 3 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section of the upper portion of the machine; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view, taken at right angles to the section of Fig. 3,.of the upper portion of the machine, the parts being in the same position as in Fig. 3; Fig. l is a vertical sectional. view, taken at. right angles to the section of Fig. 3, of the upper portion of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 27, 1905.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Serial No. 267,216.

machine and'sllowing a modification of the cap attaching means, the parts being in the same position as in Fig. 8; Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken in about the same plane as the section plane of Fig. 3, and

showing the sealing chamber closed. Fig. 6 is sectional view taken in the same section-plane as that of Fig. 5, but showing the parts ill an advanced stage of the operation, i. 6., the attaching of the cap to the bottle; Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view on the line (-1 in Fig. and, Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view on the line g g in Fig. 6.

In the drawings, a is the usual pedestal or standard having a head I) in which and the base 0 of the standard slides longitudinally a shaft (Z. The weight of this shaft, and the parts it carries, normally pushes it downwardly, it thus acting to normally hold up the free end of a treadle c which is fulcrumed in the base and connected with the lower end of the shaft by a pitman j. Said shaft carries, adjustably secured thereon, a bracket- 9 in which is mounted a rotatable bottle rest it and a bottle rest 2', which latter is guided for movement vertically in the bracket and cushioned by a spring 7c is the lower member of the filling head, the same comprising a sleeve Z which slides on the shaft (Z and has a guide-slot m in which works a. pin a on the shaft, a spring 0 coiled about said shaft between the sleeve and a collar 39 normally holding the member 70 at its upper limit'of movement with respect to the shaft. The member 7: is formed with a nozzle 9 the duct 1 in which forms, with a duct 8 in the bottom of a gage-cup '15 carried by member is, the discharge for said cup.

11 is a piston in the gage-cup carried by a stem 1) which is guided in an arm of the head I) and has secured thereon two adjust able collars 00 arranged above and below said arm. The supply to the gage-cup t is afforded through the duct y, which enters the cup near the bottom thereof, and which has a nozzle .2 the restricted opening through which a ball-valve 1, held against the adjacent end of the opening of said nozzle by a spiral spring 2 in duct 3 tends to close. Duct s has its discharge end 3 of conical form and in it seats a ball-valve 4 which is held. against the pressure in the gage-cup by a spiral spring 5. Spring 2 is weaker than the pressure of the liquid entering nozzle 2 into the gage-cup, while spring 5 is some what stronger than said pressure; so that, while the parts are in position for charging the gage-cup, the pressure of the liquid overcomes spring 2 and, forcing back ball 1, enters the gage-cup, at the same time displacing the piston a upwardly to as far as the plunger will go in the cup.

The escape of the liquid, the quantity of which is automatically gaged according to the distance which the piston u can rise, must now be by way of ducts s and r; and it follows on the upward movement of member is, as hereinafter described, which accomplishes a relatively downward movement of piston a in the gage-cup, the thus compressed liquid confined in the gagecup overcoming spring in order to escape past valve 4i. It will be understood that the liquid just referred to is the syrup or flavoring liquid.

Member 75 has an opening 6 which is internally flanged at the top, as at 7, and tapped at the bottom, as at 8.

9 is an externally flanged ring which is held up against flange 7 by a soft elastic gasket 10 interposed between said ring and a nut 11 screwed into the tapped part of opening 6. Ring 9 has a nozzle 12 the duct 13 through which opens into said ring (Fig. 4E) and is controlled by a valve 14 havinga handle 15; since ring 9 has some downward movement in member 7a, a slot 16 is formed in member 70 to accommodate the nozzle.

The upper member 17 of the filling head, as shown in Figs. 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 comprises a ring 18 into which is screwed the lower enlarged end 19 of a sleeve 20 arranged to slide vertically in the head 7). The ring 18 carries an elastic gasket 21 set into its lower face and adapted to be impinged by the upper face of ring 9, which is flat. Sleeve 20 is penetrated by a plunger 22 having a shoulder 23 near its lower end between which and an internal shoulder 2a of the sleeve is an anti-friction thrust device 25. The device 25 and a collar on the plunger, taking against the upper end of sleeve 20, prevent relative longitudinal movement of the sleeve and plunger. The upper end of the plunger is formed as a steep-threaded spindle 27 which works in a nut 28 secured to the top of head 6 by screws 29. A collar 30 secured on the spindle above the nut limits the downward movement of the plunger. 31 is a cap which receives nut 28 and is secured thereto by screws 32. Between the top of this cap and a socket 33 arranged to slide vertically therein is a spring 34, said socket carrying a hardened bearing pin 35 taking against the upper end of the spindle. As thus constructed, any

upward pressure applied against the plunger 22 sufliciently to overcome spring 34 will raise the upper member of the filling head,

the threaded connection between the plunger and the nut 28 acting to rotate the former as it rises. Since, as hereinafter explained, a gas-tight chamber or space is formed by the two members of the filling head and the bottle at a certain stage of the operation, leakage between the plunger and sleeve is prevented by a rubber gasket 36 interposed between shoulders 37 and 38 on tne portion 10 of the sleeve 20 and the plunger, respectively.

ln arc-shaped grooves 89 in ring 18 is set a's ries of arc-shaped segments ll) arranged radially in the ring (see Fig. 8) and carryirg at their inner ends rotary crimping nurls t1, the free ends of said segments being normally pressed upwardly in the ring, so as to retract the nurls, by springs 42 each being set in a Vl'tlflil bore l3 in the ring and engaging a lug (b-i on the segment. In the vertical bores ,3 in the head Z) is arranged to more a series of pins 46 which project down into the ring 18 each in alinement with the free end of a segment 40. Downward movement of the pins is limited by their heads at? ei'igaging the bottom of the bores 46, against which they are normally held by springs 48 arranged in the bores between said heads and adjusting screws l9 tapped into the bores.

The ar rangement is such that, when the parts stand in the position shown in F 3, the segments are retracted, but when the upper member of the filling head rises, springs 48 overcome springs and cause the segments to move in their groove 39, thus contracting the circle in which their nurls stand.

The lower end of the plunger 22 is conical, as at 50, said conical portion being surrounded by a concentric series of capholding fingers 51 which are surrounded by an elastic band Said band tends to contract the fingers into a small circle; this action is always limited by the nurl ends of the segments 40, which act to keep the lingers in place, but it is overcome, with the consequence that the fingers withdraw, when the segments move inwardly to contract the circle in which the nurls stand, the fingers 51 at this time sliding up on the cone 50.

Referring, now, to Fig. 4, the upper member 17 of the filling l'iead comprises a ring which is screwed. on to the lower enlarged solid end or head portion 5a of a sleeve 55 arranged to slide vertically in a hore 56 of the head 7). The ring 53carries the'same rubber gasket 21 described above as adapted to co-act with the ring 9 to close the filling chamber. The sleeve is penetrated by a stem 57 screwed into its head and projecting through the top of the head Z) and having a collar 58 which limits its downward movement under the pressure of a spiral spring 59 interposed, in the sleeve,

between the top of bore 56 and the head 5a of the sleeve. 60 are segments arranged in radial segmental grooves 61 in the ring 53. These segments have plain inner ends, being adapted, by standing close together, when contracted, to inbend the bottle cap flange as a plain circular shoulder, like the nurlcarrying segments 40 already de scribed. At their rear ends they have lugs 62 which are received in an internal groove 63 in a ring 64. ar'anged to slide vertically in the ring 53. Pins 65 arranged concentrically in the head rest on ring 64-. and when the member 17 of the filling head moves upwardly their movement is resisted by an annulus 66 bearing against a rubber gasket 67 on a boss 68 on the head 6. The head at is formed with an annular space 69 having a conical portion 7 0 around which is arranged a series of fingers 71 like the fingers 5-1, the same being surrounded by an. elastic band 72. The parts 71 and 7 2 actin the same manner as the parts 51 and 532, and are controlled by segments 60 the same as parts .31 and 52 are controlled by segments 0. Springs 6t normally hold ring Get elevated.

In the present machine, tie snifting operation is merely incidental to the operation of parts which have to move, anyway, in order to perform other functions. I employ a receiver which, wnile structurally separated or detached from the filling head, forms a space that is practically a part of a sealed or a closed chamoer of which the space in the filling head is also a part. Such receiver is shown in the drawing as a cylinder 73 arranged in the head 5 and having a bore 74 and a. nozzle 7 5 whose duct coinmunicates with the bore. Into said bore fits tube 76 which is mounted in the membcr 17 of the head and affords at all times communication between the cylinder and the space of bore 7t through a port 76. The tube slides up in the bore when the member 17 of the filling head rises and so brings a port 77 in said tube into communication with the duct of the nozzle.

is a cap on the cylinder, and 79 a plunger whose stem 80 penetrates the cap and may be vertically adyusted by 1. set

screw Sl. The capacity of the receiver, it will be manifest, is regulated by adjusting the plunger.

(Bperation: A bottle already having its quantum of syrup is placed on the rest It and an empty bottle on rest i; a cap also placed in the cavity of member 17 of the filling head and there held by the fingers to 71). The operator now depresses treadle c. which aises shaft (Z ant. the parts it can ries until ring 9 brings up against the gasket 21. The resistance now offered to the upward advance of mem ier Z: indicates to the operator that the filling chamber, which is to be formed by the member 17 and member A of the filling head and the bottle on rest 72,, is closed at every point except by the bottle. tontinued upward movement of the shaft (Z acts to compress gasket 10 so that its interior diameter is reduced; the mouth of the bottle on rest 7L now enters gasket 10, which snugly fits about the same and seals off the space at all points from the outside. The pressure on treadle e now stopped. while the operator opens valve it and thereby admits the main or principal liquid up to the desired height, which is readily apparent because practi ally the whole of the bottle, except its mouth, is exposed, whereupon valve ll closed. The air which is expelled from the bottle occupies the filling head and the receiver (cylinder 73) which co .1'inninicates with the filling head through tube 76. Pressure on the treadle is now resumed, which ultimately causes member 7.: of the filling head to impinge against the head 3) where the snaft penetrates it, after which the shaft is free to continue its upward movement. a distance approximately the length of the slot m. The remaining part of the operation, so far as the bottle on rest 71. is concerned, is the step of attaching the cap. t nder the continued pressure on treadle c, said bottle rises until its mouth impinges against the usual lining pad of the cap, which may be the ordinary disk having a depending flange and the lining pad inserted in the top thereof.

The upward pressure of the bottle against the cap acts to raise the upper member of the filling head away from the lower member thereof, but before the seal of the filling cnamber is broken as between gasket 21. and ring 9, port 77 begins to register with the )ort or duct of the nozzle 75, so that the release of the compressed air and gas which have been ejected from the bottle on filling,

occurs at the nozzle. As the members of the filling head part, the operator can see whether or not the necessary air-space exists above the liquid in the bottle and if not he now releases the pressure on the treadle, allowing the bottle to return sufficiently to relax somewhat the temporary seal until the internal pressure has forced the required amount of liquid outof the bottle.

Referring, now, first to Figs. 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8: As the member 17 of the filling head rises, the pins 46, whose upward movement is resisted by springs as, in turn resisted by a fixed part of the frame, force the segments :0 inwardly so that their nurls take a contracted circular position and press against the flange of the cap to start the operation of bending the flange in under the lip of the bottle hnd thereby locking the cap thereto. During the upward movement of member 17 the plunger 22 is, furthermore, caused to rotate by its threaded spindle working in the nut 28, and, since the combined action of the springs 0 and 34 cause the bottle to be firmly gripped between its rotary rest 71 and the plunger, said rest, the bottle and the plunger rotate together, while the member 17, of the filling head and its segments are held from rotating by the pins 4-6. The result of this operation is that the nurls 011 the .-:egments, still held against the flange of the cap, travel in a circumferential path on the cap flange, crimping it in under the lip of. the bottle atall points and so effecting the locking of the cap to the bottle. The springs 48, it will be observed cushion the action of toe nurls during this operation. The pressure on treadle is now released, so that the bottle first permits the member 17 oi the filling head to drop into contact with the member 76 thereof, and then the member and the bottle assume their original positions.

Reif'erring to Fig. 4, when the bottle impinges against the cap and raises member 17 of the filling head,the segments 60 are caused to move into a contracted circular arrange ment by the pins (35 resisting upward movement of the ring it hese segments simply inbend the flange of the cap under and into lockin engagement with the lip of the bottle by bending the flange of the cap inwardly in a. plain smooth head or shoulder such as is formed in the operation of the cap attaching means shown in Figs. 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

in both arrangements, when the segments .Wtract, they push the fingers 51 or 71 up out of the way, already clearly indicated.

W iile the bottle on rest it is being filled and capped, which is during the upward movement of the shaft (l, the bottle on rest 2' is receiving its portion of syrup. The pressure from the supply of syrup keeps cup t filled, and when the cup rises with the mem: her is, its plunger, which is held against its top wall by the syrup in the cup, can only rise with the cup until the lower collar m impinges against the arm to whereupon the phmger ceases to move farther and the continued rising of the cup causes the plunger to approach the lower end of the cup, which action. forces the syrup in the cup out of the nozzle ,7, overcoming the spring pressed valve 4. hen the saaft (Z is again lowered, the plunger would follow to its full extent with it except that the pressure from the syrup supply forces more syrup into the cup and so holds the plunger at the top of the latter.

It will be understood that by a slight modification of the operating mechanism the bottle to be filled or capped might be placed on a fixed table and he filling and attaching means arranged to move down into operating position instead of the bottle moving up as shown.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. ln\ a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a closure-aliixing means, a filling head, and means for causing the filling-head to inclose the bottle mouth and affixing means at one stage of the operation of filling and closing the bottle and the filling-head to assume a non-inclosing condition with respect to the aflixing means at another stage of said operation, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the conibination of a closure-afiixing means, a two-part fillinghead, and means for causing the parts of said filling-head to engage with each other, and thereby close the filling-head, around the aifixiug means and the bottle mouth at one stage of the operation of filling and closing the bottle and to separate from each other at another stage of said operation whereby to assume a non-inclosing condition with respect to the aflixing means, substantially as described.

In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a closure-affixin means, a two-part fillinghead, said aihXing means being located between the parts of said filling-head, and means for causing the parts of said fillinghead to engage with each other, and thereby close the filling-head, around the aifixing means and the bottle mouth at one stage of the operation of filling and closing the bottle and to separate from each other at another stage of said operation whereby to assume a l1( 11-l1]GlOSl11g condition with respect to the atlixing means, substantially as described.

l. In a bottling machine, the combination of two members one of which has a bottlereceiving opening extending therethrough, one of said members being movable into engagement with the other to form therewith and with toe bottle an inclosed space comprising said opening and one of which, also, is movable under actuation from the bottle away from the other, means for sealing oil said space where said members impinge against each other, means for forming a seal as between the bottle neck and the member having the opening therethrough, means for supplying a liquid to said space, and a closure-aflixing means located between the space-forming portions of said members, substantially as described.

5. In a bottling machine, the combination of two members one of which has a closurereceiver and one of which has a bottle-receiving opening extending therethrough and registrable with said receiver, one of said members being movable against the other to form therewith and with the bottle an inclosed. space and one of which, also, is movable under actuation from the bottle away from the other, means for sealing ofi bottle to be projected through said firstsaid space where said members impinge 1 named part and against the other part and against each other, means for forming a seal as between the bottle and the member having the opening therethrough, means for supplying a liquid to said space, and a closureattixing means located between the spaceforming portions of said members, substantially as described.

6. In a bottling machine, the combination of two members one of which has a bottle-receiving opening extending therethrough, one of said members being movable against the other to form therewith and with the bottle an inclosed space comprising said opening, a closure-atlixing means located between the space-forming portions of said members, means for sealing off said space where said members impinge against each other, an elastic gasket forming a part of the bottlereceiving opening-portion of said other member, said gasket being internally contractible by vertical compression upon the impact of said members against each other to form a seal as between the bottle and said last-named member, and means for supplying a liquid to said space, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a closure-afiixing means, a two-part fillinghead having the parts thereof normally disposed in spaced relation to each other, and means for causing the parts of said filling head to first engage with each other and thereby close the filling-head as between said parts and for causing the bottle to be projected into the filling-head and move one part of the filling-head away from the other, substantially as described.

8. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a closure-afiixing means, a two-part filling head having one part thereof normally disposed in spaced relation to but movable toward and from the other, said closure-ailining means being operative upon the movement of said part, and means for causing the parts of said filling-head to first engage with each other and thereby close the fillinghead as between said parts and for causing the bottle to be projected into the fillinghead and move said first-named part away from the other, substantially as described.

9. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a closure affixing means, a two-part fillinghead, one part thereof having an opening therethrough and being normally spaced from the other part and said other part being adapted to yield from the first-named part, and means for first causing said first named part to impinge against the other part and thereby close the filling-head as bet-ween said parts and then causing the move the latter away from said first named part, substantially as described.

10. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a closure-affixing means, a two-part fillinghead comprising an upper yielding part and a lower part having an opening therethrough, a vertically movable bottle supporting structure, said lower part being yieldably mounted on said structure, and means for moving said structure, substantially as described,

11, In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a filling-head having a part thereof movable and adapted to receive and temporarily hold a bottle closure, said filling-head being adapted to cooperate with the bottle to form a substantially hermetically closed space, a closure-afiixing means operative by and upon the movement of said part, and means for maintaining the bottle in sealing contact with the closure, said means being movable with said part, substantially as described.

12. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a separable filling-head having one part thereof movable and adapted to receive and temporarily hold a bottle-closure, aclosureaffixing means operative by and upon the movement of said part, and means for maintaining the bottle in sealing contact with the closure, said means being movable with said part, substantially as described.

13. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a separable filling-head having one part thereof movable and adapted to receive a bottle closure, means, comprising radially arranged crimping segments and carried by said part, for causing the closure to be interlocked with the bottle, and means for maintaining the bottle in contact with the closure during the movement of said part, substantially as described.

14. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a separable filling -head having one member thereof movable and adapted to receive a bottle closure, a fixed part, means, comprising radially arranged crimping segments and carried by said member, for causing the closure to be interlocked with the bottle, said means being cooperative with said fixed part, and means for maintaining the bottle in contact with the closure during the movement of said member, substantially as described.

15. In a machine for filling and closing bottles and the like, the combination of a two-part filling-head, means for efi'ecting a relative movement as between said parts, and a closure-aflixing means operative by and upon such relative movement as between said parts, substantially as described.

16. The combination, with the frame, of two filling-head forming members, and a bottle-rest arranged in superposed disposition, the upper member being relatively yieldable and the lower member having a bottle-receiving opening extending therethrough, an upwardly movable support carrying the lower member and the bottlerest, said lower member being downwardly yieldable on the support, a stop for limiting the upward movement of said lower member, a liquid supplying-means, and a closureaflixing means, substantially as described.

17. 111 a bottling machine, the combination of a reciproeatoryfilling-head, a re ceiver having a bore formed therein and a discharge port leading from said here, and a tubular conductor communicating with the space of the filling-head and sliding in said bore, said conductor having, a port registrable with said discharge, substantially as described.

18. The combination of a filling-head having a movable part, a closure-altixing means operative by and upon the movement of said part, and a pressure-escape means connected with the filling-head and also operative by and upon the movement of said part to release the pressure in the filling-head, substantially as described;

19. The combination of a filling-head having a movable part, a closure-affixing means operative by and upon the movement oi? said part, a receiver connected with the fillinghead and adapted to form therewith, when the filling-head is closed, an inclosed space,

and a pressurescape means for said space operative by and upon the movement of said part to release the pressure in said space, substantially as described.

20. The combination of a filling-head having a part thereof arranged within the path of movement of the receptacle to be filled and adapted to be moved thereby, a support for the receptacle to be filled movable toward said part, a closure-aflixing means op erative by and upon the movement of said part, and a pressure-escape means connected with the filling-head and also operative by and upon the movement of said part to release the pressure in the filling-head, substantially as described.

21. in a bottling machine, the combination of a filling-head adapted to form with the bottle a substantially hermetically inclosed. space, a part ot. said filling-head being movable, means for securing the closure to the bottle operative upon the movement oil. said part, means for introducing to the tilling-hmd a fluid under pressure, a snifting discharge, and a fluid conductor coinmunicating with the space of the fillinghead and having a port registrable with the duct of said discharge upon movement of the movable part of the filling-head, sub stantially as described.

ln testimony, that I claim the foregoing, l have hereunto set my hand. this 1st day of June 1905.

AMO S CA LLE SON.

vi itnesses En. J. Fnn'nnnr, Jenn \V. STEWARD. 

